Household tip that may save money: Any electric outlets not working?

The danger of offering a household tip that you've recently discovered is possibly exposing yourself as a dork. For all I know, my domestic insight is extremely obvious. For all I know, everyone reading this who owns a home, and maybe even some who don't, will say: "Duh."

But if I help just one person out there, by saving them some grief or money hiring an electrician, I guess it's worth it.

For the last few years, our house has had several electric outlets not working. The outside ones, and a couple bathroom outlets. It was a nuisance, but nothing terrible, and it sure didn't seem worth bringing in an electrician for. And so we didn't.

But I did recently hire a professional handyman to fix some problems with my roof (it leaked), and within about, oh, two seconds, he fixed our outlets.

Modern day homes -- I'm guessing 20-years-old and newer, since mine's about 15, but as we've established, I'm not an electrician -- have something called a ground fault interupter, also known as a reset button. In most houses, it's in one of the bathrooms, and it's attached to one of the outlets. Ours is red. The handyman pressed it.